These innovative courses are for people who have studied Spanish but still find it challenging to participate in real conversations with native Spanish speakers. We focus on authentic colloquial language, spoken at normal native-speaker speed.
Enjoy your Spanish!
Many people find listening comprehension the most difficult aspect of language learning. That’s why our courses focus on authentic speech and colloquial language.
Each course consists of engaging video-lessons based on clips from popular movies, TV programmes, documentaries, or short stories presented as radio plays. Each lesson comes with interesting study materials and online activities linked to the videos or radio plays. You will hear authentic Spanish at normal native-speaker speed, and you’ll learn many expressions that you can use in order to sound more natural. Our virtual teachers explain the vocabulary, the expressions and some points of grammar that come up in the lessons. They also explain the historical and cultural content, which is just as important as the linguistic content when you participate in conversation with native speakers.
Each lesson will take 3-5 hours, depending on how often you view or listen to each lesson… multiple sessions are recommended, until you can really distinguish and understand every word without the transcription or subtitles. We also recommend that you choose a section from the transcription and read aloud along with the audio. This will help to improve your pronunciation, intonation, phrasing, and fluency.
Español con cine 1: «Arrugas»
The first lesson of this course is a free preview. Try it now!
This course consists of six lessons based on clips from the prizewinning animated film «Arrugas», a moving yet amusing story about a friendship between two old men in a care home. You’ll learn interesting information about the autonomous communities (regions) of Spain, the history of emigration to Latin America, and recent changes in intergenerational relationships. You’ll also get familiar with some aspects of Argentinian Spanish. And if you follow our suggestions on how to study, you’ll improve your grammar, vocabulary, fluency and pronunciation! Click on the curriculum below to see the linguistic and cultural content of each lesson.
25€ 22.50€ (Plus any taxes may that apply in your country)
Español con cine 2: «Ocho apellidos vascos»
This course is based on clips from a very popular Spanish movie about the unlikely romance between young Andalusian man and a young Basque woman. They have very sterotypical ideas about each other, and are so different that they could be from different planets. The movie is very funny and you will want to see the whole thing!
25€ 22.50€ (Plus any taxes may that apply in your country)
Español con los Alcántara: «Un malentendido»
The five lessons in this course are based on clips from Cuéntame cómo pasó, a popular, prizewinning series from Televisión Española (TVE). We meet the Alcántaras, a working-class family living in Madrid in the 60s. The Catholic Church still had enormous power, and contraceptive pills were available only on the black market.
25€ 22.50€ (Plus any taxes may that apply in your country)
Español con noticias y documentales: entrevistas y reportaje
This course is a collection of five individual lessons based on clips from television news programs. Topics include a scandal dating from the Franco era, Spain’s artistic and cultural heritage, the depopulation of rural Spain, and the reasons for the long workday in Spain.
25€ 22.50€ (Plus any taxes may that apply in your country)
Español con noticias y documentales: La historia de tres regiones bilingües de España
These lessons are based on short documentary videos, delivered in an interesting visual way, about three of Spain’s autonomous communities: the Basque country, Catalunya, and Galicia. You’ll learn a lot of vocabulary that you can use when reading newspapers, watching TV news and documentaries, and discussing historical and current events.
25€ 22.50€ (Plus any taxes may that apply in your country)
Español con radioteatro 1: «Dilemas»
The first lesson in this course is a free preview. Try it now!
This course is based on short stories by Júlia Rodríguez Solera, a writer from Barcelona. We have adapted the stories as radio plays. We explain the vocabulary, expressions and grammar points that come up in the play. We also explain the cultural context, which is just as important as the language when it comes to participating in real conversations with native speakers.
25€ 22.50€ (Plus any taxes may that apply in your country)
Real Spanish Course Pack 1: Español con cine, TV y radioteatro
This pack consists of 4 courses:
Español con cine 1: «Arrugas»
Español con cine 2: «Ocho appellidos vascos»
Español con los Alcántara: «Un malentendido»
Español con radioteatro 1: «Dilemas»
100€ 75€ (Plus any taxes may that apply in your country)
Real Spanish Course Pack 2: Español con noticias y documentales
This pack consists of 2 courses:
Español con noticias y documentales 1: Entrevistas y reportajes
Español con noticias y documentales 2: La historia de tres regiones bilingües de España
50€ 37.50€ (Plus any taxes may that apply in your country)
